Semantic search has been one of the motivations of the Semantic Web since it was envisioned. We propose a model for the exploitation of ontology-based knowledge bases to improve search over large document repositories. In our view of Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web, a search engine returns documents rather than, or in addition to, exact values in response to user queries. For this purpose, our approach includes an ontology-based scheme for the semiautomatic annotation of documents and a retrieval system. The retrieval model is based on an adaptation of the classic vector-space model, including an annotation weighting algorithm, and a ranking algorithm. Semantic search is combined with conventional keyword-based retrieval to achieve tolerance to knowledge base incompleteness. Experiments are shown where our approach is tested on corpora of significant scale, showing clear improvements with respect to keyword-based search.
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%A Castells, P
%A Fernandez, M
%A Vallet, D
%D 2007
%J IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
%K ir ontologies semantic vector-space
%N 2
%P 261--272
%T An adaptation of the vector-space model for ontology-based information retrieval
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%X Semantic search has been one of the motivations of the Semantic Web since it was envisioned. We propose a model for the exploitation of ontology-based knowledge bases to improve search over large document repositories. In our view of Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web, a search engine returns documents rather than, or in addition to, exact values in response to user queries. For this purpose, our approach includes an ontology-based scheme for the semiautomatic annotation of documents and a retrieval system. The retrieval model is based on an adaptation of the classic vector-space model, including an annotation weighting algorithm, and a ranking algorithm. Semantic search is combined with conventional keyword-based retrieval to achieve tolerance to knowledge base incompleteness. Experiments are shown where our approach is tested on corpora of significant scale, showing clear improvements with respect to keyword-based search.
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abstract = {Semantic search has been one of the motivations of the Semantic Web since it was envisioned. We propose a model for the exploitation of ontology-based knowledge bases to improve search over large document repositories. In our view of Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web, a search engine returns documents rather than, or in addition to, exact values in response to user queries. For this purpose, our approach includes an ontology-based scheme for the semiautomatic annotation of documents and a retrieval system. The retrieval model is based on an adaptation of the classic vector-space model, including an annotation weighting algorithm, and a ranking algorithm. Semantic search is combined with conventional keyword-based retrieval to achieve tolerance to knowledge base incompleteness. Experiments are shown where our approach is tested on corpora of significant scale, showing clear improvements with respect to keyword-based search.},
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author = {Castells, P and Fernandez, M and Vallet, D},
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journal = {{IEEE} {TRANSACTIONS} {ON} {KNOWLEDGE} {AND} {DATA} {ENGINEERING}},
keywords = {ir ontologies semantic vector-space},
month = {February},
number = 2,
pages = {261--272},
timestamp = {2009-03-16T20:30:03.000+0100},
title = {An adaptation of the vector-space model for ontology-based information retrieval},
url = {http://apps.isiknowledge.com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/full_record.do?product=WOS&colname=WOS&search_mode=CitingArticles&qid=53&SID=4DdmdNEJmOggp6O6N3k&page=2&doc=15},
volume = 19,
year = 2007
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